Those Having Predestined Relationship With Dafa Are On Their Way To Heavenly Homes

Merciful Master and fellow practitioners. I am Chester Peng, a 62 year old Falun Gong practitioner from Taiwan. I am very glad to come to Argentina to share with you my experiences and understanding of cultivation.

Through the cultivation of Dafa, I gradually let go of my attachments to fame and profit:

In July, 2000, I came across the Falun Gong meditation practice. I have practiced Falun Gong for over three years now. Before practicing Falun Gong, I was deeply obsessed with everyday people's mentalities for fame and profit. I used to be a senior manager in a government agency who might use several boxes of business cards every year. In March 2000, I retired from my government service. My poor health was the reason for me to apply for early retirement. My knees suffered from rheumatoid arthritis; my four limbs were afflicted with arthritis and I was also plagued by a skin disease and allergy. I was in no doubt that there was something wrong with my immune system, so I thought I needed some thorough medical treatments. But at that time I could not resist the temptation to fame and profit. In the morning, I went to a financial securities company trading stocks and shares, while in the afternoon or evening I taught classes in school as a part-time teacher. Though I made time to do some exercises and had a balanced diet, my physical condition was getting worse and thus I was always in an anxious frame of mind.

In the beginning of July 2000, my family and I went to an art exhibition held by my cousin's wife. At that time, my cousin and his wife had just completed a nine-day Falun Dafa class, and they introduced Falun Gong to us. At that time, my wife just retired from a bank, and we were interested in learning some traditional cultivation practices to keep fit. Therefore we also attended a nine-day Dafa class. Only after we went to the class did we become aware that we were expected to watch the videos of Master's [the founder of Falun Gong, Mr Li Hongzhi] Fa-lectures and that besides practicing the exercises we needed to study the Fa [law and principles in Falun Gong] and cultivate our moral nature.

Perhaps because of our predestined relationship with the Fa, we kept attending the nine-day Dafa class right to the end. As soon as we went to the class, my wife felt something miraculous in her body. On the second day of the class, she felt the Falun rotating ceaselessly over her head. My wife had suffered from more serious diseases than me. But shortly after she obtained the Fa, the hemorrhoids that had plagued her for many years miraculously disappeared, and other diseases such as insomnia, allergy, aching all over her body, fear of cold, and other physical problems related to her menopause disappeared in half a year. Besides, all of my diseases also miraculously disappeared. Our skin became delicate and tender, and we feel much more energetic than ever. We saved the money that we used to spend on medical bills, health food, health care and fitness programmes. Thanks for Master's great compassion. We finally regained the feeling of being light and without illnesses.

As for the upgrading of our hearts, I disciplined myself according to Master's teachings. When I read the Dafa book and learned that trading securities is also a gambling act, I immediately sold all of the securities I bought in the past, and I have not invested in the stock market for the past three years. I also made efforts to let go of my attachments to fame and profit. Of course, it is not so easy to immediately let go of these attachments. After my retirement, I still had many part-time jobs. At that time, I used many ordinary people’s titles such as board directors and committee members, etc. on my business cards. From now on I will not use those business cards. Now let me talk about my attachment to profit. As I remembered, in the second year after I started my cultivation, there was a financial crisis in Argentina and banks did not allow people to withdraw money from their accounts. I, a person who lives in Taiwan, even bought some US dollars and stored them in a bank’s safe deposit box lest there might be some emergency . Now thinking of my mentalities of anxiety and fear, I feel ashamed and repentant.

My family members obtained the Fa one after another, and got involved in the Fa-rectification through group cultivation:

In February, 2001, my youngest brother and his wife came over to my place. Because my sister-in-law had a disease to do with her immune system they went to attend a nine-day Dafa Class together with their two daughters after reading some Dafa publications. After their second daughter was born ten years ago, my sister-in-law became infertile, but she was surprisingly pregnant six months after she obtained the Fa. In July 2002, she gave birth to a baby boy, so they called it Falun Baby.

My mother had Parkinson's disease in 1980, since then she has taken medicine to control the disease for more than twenty years. In the past years, she was hospitalised once or twice every year. We have seven siblings in Taiwan, and we are all married. But we get together to have meals with my mother every weekend. After my wife and I obtained the Fa, we never gave up any opportunity to spread Dafa to them during our weekly family gatherings. With a view to our improvement of bodies and minds as well as the fact that my sister-in-law became pregnant, my siblings started to believe in Dafa’s miricles. Since January 2002, as in a relay race, my third younger brother and his wife, my second younger sister, my youngest sister and her husband, my eldest sister, my fourth younger brother and his wife obtained the Fa one after another in five months. Thereby, the Dafa family was formed. At present we meet every weekend to study the Fa, exchange cultivation experiences and send forth righteous thoughts together. My mother doesn’t practice the exercises because she is disabled, and has difficulty reading the Fa. But she often says “Falun Dafa is good,” and listens to the Fa read by her children once a week, so her health has been very good in the recent two years or so. We all know that Falun’s inward clockwise rotation offers self-salvation while its outward counter-clockwise rotation offers salvation to others, and that cultivators’ energy field can unwittingly adjust others’ bodies and cure their illnesses. Undoubtedly, all these matters have been proved in my family.

In the initial stage after my siblings obtained the Fa, I aways encouraged them to make time to study the Fa, because if we don’t study the Fa well, it would be difficult for us to clarify the truth and send forth righteous thoughts. After studying the Fa thoroughly, they came to understand the progress of the Fa-rectification and the responsibility of Fa-rectification period Dafa disciples. Thereby, they soon took the initiative to participate in the Fa-rectification activities. Whether local Fa-spreading activities or clarifying the truth to the precious Chinese people, they never lag behind others. My siblings’ diligent cultivation changed their bodies and minds. Their illnesses are gone, and the attachments they could not let go of are fading away. The entire family has become more harmonious than ever before, and it has become a virtuous circle. Before we cultivated Dafa, all of these good things were definitely beyond our imagination.

In Taiwan, if a new practitioner wants to continue his cultivation, I think he should practice the exercises at a practice site and attend group Fa-studying activities regularly so as to exchange cultivation experiences with others. On the other hand, he should participate in other group activities as much as possible. In this regard, my wife and I have really made it. When a couple cultivates Dafa together, they are able to point out the opposite side’s omissions in xinxing levels. When conflicts arise, they can look inward to find their own omissions and the family will then become a good cultivation environment. Shortly after we started our cultivation, our daughter who has a job now obtained the Fa, and afterward my son who studies in the U.K. also obtained the Fa overseas, because they all witnessed the tremendous changes in our bodies and minds after we started our cultivation.

It is Dafa practitioners' responsibility to let those with predestined relationship obtain the Fa and save sentient beings:

Besides Fa studying, practicing the exercises, cultivating our xinxing, and sending forth righteous thoughts Dafa practitioners are spending most of their time promoting the Fa and telling the facts to people, in the hope that those with predestined relationship can obtain the Fa and sentient beings can be saved. This is not only what Dafa practitioners should do but also the historic responsibility that Dafa practitioners should shoulder. In the Lecture at the US East Coast Conference Master said, "As Dafa practitioners, when you benefit from it and you feel like telling the good thing to your relatives, your friends and more people, this is an act of great compassion." (unofficial translation) As for introducing the Fa to our relatives, because most of my family members have obtained the Fa, I have been asked by other practitioners this question often. Generally speaking, there are two situations. First, if we behave well by the standard of Dafa, after our family members see this, they may obtain the Fa. Second, no matter how well a practitioner behaves, his family members may still not be able to obtain the Fa if they lack a predestined relationship with Dafa. The second situation often frustrates some practitioners. If encountering this situation, perhaps we should get rid of the attachment to affection and let it be. In fact, this kind of frustrating situation also offers us an opportunity to upgrade our hearts.

In Teaching the Fa at the 2003 Atlanta Fa Conference, Master said, "Of course, there are a lot of new students who are now gradually coming in, and that's due to your clarifying the truth. It's like a master key, unlocking that old-force factor that seals the world's people off and prevents them from learning the Fa. Only your clarifying the truth can do this." As to what Master Li mentioned above, I would like to take my experiences in Taiwan last month as an example to prove that people today are eager to obtain the Fa. Once I drove a car with Dafa’s advertising boards to promote the Fa at the National Palace Museum in Taipei. When I was about to leave, a person stopped me and asked me where to buy the main Falun Gong book Zhuan Falun. Another time, after buying Dafa’s truth-clarification materials at a bookstore, I was reading the materials on a bus on my way home; a passenger sitting next to me moved toward me, and wanted to read the materials together. Besides, in the elevator, one of my neighbors who know I practice Falun Gong told me that one day, on a bus, she saw one passenger next to her reading the book Zhuan Falun and she could not help looking at the book from time to time. Then she went to a bookstore to buy the book herself. What’s more amazing is that as soon as she picked up the book Zhuan Falun, she sensed a feeling of shaking all over, afterwards she asked me where to attend the nine-day Dafa class. I believe these people must have some predestined relationship with Dafa. Perhaps their knowing side has already sensed that the time is pressing, and that if they did not obtain the Fa soon, it would be too late.

Through studying the Fa, we understand that the real purpose of being a person is to return to our original true self. But restricted by the predestined relationship, enlightenment quality, circumstances, or karma, it is not possible for everyone to obtain the Fa. As practitioners, if we can do our utmost to let sentient beings know that Dafa is good, and not to let anyone with a predestined relationship be left behind, we are showing compassion to others. However, even if sentient beings can be fortunate enough to obtain the Fa, not everyone can be a wise person to practice it diligently; some are just average persons. I believe that as along as we have a firm belief in Master Li, always bear Dafa in our minds, cultivate our minds, get rid of our attachments, cultivate diligently and step out of the state of everyday people, and catch up with the progress of Fa-rectification, all of the Dafa practitioners can return to their heavenly homes.

Though one's opportunity to obtain the Fa is very rare, "if his mind contains negative thoughts toward Dafa, he will be weeded out when the test of Dafa and Dafa disciples is over." (Teaching the Fa at the Washington, D.C. International Fa Conference.) Therefore, the major purpose of Dafa practitioners' truth-clarification is to save every sentient being. We should tell the facts to everyone we encounter in our society, in particular the Chinese who are deceived by evil lies. This is the opportunity given to Dafa practitioners by Master for us to establish our mighty virtue and to harmonise and consummate everything that is needed for our own Fruition and countless living beings. Finally, how can those with predestined relationship step on the way to return to their original true self? I would like to quote Master's words in Teaching the Fa at the 2003 Atlanta Fa Conference to encourage my fellow practitioners, "That's why I often say that if you're able to do the three things that Dafa disciples need to do well validating the Fa, then everything is encompassed by them."

The above is my understanding of the Fa during the process of my personal cultivation. Because I am still limited by my level, please be kind enough to correct me if there is anything improper.

Thanks Master. Thanks everyone.